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Rachael A. Callcut, M.D., M.S.P.H.

Associate Professor of SurgeryDivision of General SurgeryZuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma CenterDirector of Data Science,Program Director of the Smarter Health Artificial Intelligence InitiativeCenter for Digital Health Innovation

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Biography

Rachael A. Callcut, M.D., M.S.P.H, received her M.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and thereafter completed a general surgery residency at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During residency, Dr. Callcut spent two years as a NIH post-doctoral research fellow earning a Clinical Investigator's Preparatory Program Certificate and a Masters of Science in Population Health Sciences from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

Dr. Callcut subsequently completed a Fellowship in Surgical Critical Care and Trauma at the University of Cincinnati in 2009. Dr. Callcut is a graduate of the UCSF CTSI K-scholars program and was the recipient of a NIH Mentored (K01) Career Development Award in Data Science from the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Initiative. She served on the faculties of the University of Cincinnati and Stanford University medical schools before joined the UCSF Department of Surgery faculty in August 2012.

Dr. Callcut has an active clinical practice encompassing elective and emergent general surgery, trauma surgery, and critical care. Dr. Callcut is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS), and a member of the Society of University Surgeons (SUS), the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST), the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), the Association of Academic Surgery (AAS), the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST), and the Western Trauma Association (WTA).

In addition to serving in multiple leadership capacities in national organizations, she is the current Chair of the EAST Research and Scholarship Committee (2019-2022). The Committee is tasked with developing programs to facilitate the growth of promising surgeon-scientists in the field of trauma/critical care.

Research Overview

Dr. Callcut has a broad health services research and data science portfolio focused on clinical outcomes research in Trauma and Critical Care and is an investigator in ongoing multicenter clinical trials examining resuscitation outcomes. Dr. Callcut has published numerous articles on the impact of regulatory issues in surgery, health care delivery, artificial intelligence/machine learning, advanced statistical techniques, cost-effectiveness, and the development of screening algorithms for clinical care.

Dr. Callcut also serves on the executive leadership team of the UCAF Center for Digital Health Innovation (CDHI) as both the Director of Data Science and Program Director of the SmarterHealth Artificial Intelligence Initiative. In these capacities, she leads a multi-disciplinary team working at the intersection of artificial intelligence to drive change in the delivery of healthcare for both patients and providers. Her team has developed and licensed multiple commercial applications of artificial intelligence deployed in the clinical domain.

Dr. Callcut is a also a member of the Institute of Computational Health Sciences and UCSF Innovation Ventures. Her research also includes directing a NIH and DOD funded research lab in the Department of Surgery focused on integration of biomedical big data and surgical data science into critical care for improved clinical decision support.

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In the News

Trauma Surgeon Rachael Callcut, MD, MSPH has been named Chair of the Research and Scholarship Committee for the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) Trauma, for a three-year a term to commencing January 19, 2019.
The Research and Scholarship Committee promotes the mentorship and development of young surgeon scientists through a variety of initiatives. The Chair is an integral part the leadership team at EAST, a prestigious and highly sought after position.
Dr. Callcut is an [...]

Dr. Rachael Callcut, Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center and Director of Data Science for the Center for Digital Health Innovation, partnered with her radiology colleagues and GE Healthcare to create an initial algorithm that can detect pneumothorax, a condition which strikes nearly 74,000 Americans each year[1] and can be deadly if not diagnosed quickly and accurately.[2] The challenge: a patient with this condition could wait [...]

Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General - December 05, 2018

Trauma surgeons at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center have been among the strongest proponents for physicians speaking out on the issue of gun violence and conducting research to reduce suffering and prevent needless and tragic deaths. They have harnessed the power of Twitter in the service of community outreach and effecting social change.
Notably, Rachael A. Callcut, M.D., MSPH was among the group that created the Twitter handle, @ThisIsOurLane and Andre Campbell, [...]

UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General - Richard Barg - November 01, 2016

Rachael A. Callcut, M.D., M.S.P.H., a trauma surgeon at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, recently participated in Fleet Week disaster training aboard the USS San Diego with other medical professionals.
Dr. Susan Ehrlich, Chief Executive Officer of Zuckerberg San Francisco General, described the exercise:
This October, there was also some serious work and training going on involving ZSFG and the US Navy's 3rd fleet from the USS San Diego. The ship's team spent a [...]

UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General - September 01, 2015

UCSF News reports on the significant increase of bicycle accidents in riders over age 45 as discussed in a study, published in the Sept. 1st edition of JAMA and co-authored by Rachael Callcut, M.D., M.S.P.H., Assistant Professor of Surgery at the UCSF Department of Surgery at SFGH.
The incidence of bicycle accidents has increased significantly in the U.S. in recent years, with many serious injuries occurring among riders older than 45, according to a new study led by UC San Francisco.
The [...]

UCSF Department of Surgery at Zuckerberg San Francisco General - July 12, 2013

UCSF News reports on the efforts of the trauma team at San Francisco General Hospital that treated victims of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 that crashed while landing in San Francisco in July 2013. The team included UCSF Department of Surgery trauma surgeons M. Margaret Knudson, M.D. and Andre Campbell, M.D., and Rachael A. Callcut, M.D., M.S.P.H.. They arrived at SFGH within hours of the disaster:
On the morning of July 6, M. Margaret Knudson, MD, chief of surgery at SFGH, worked with Campbell [...]